Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 16:54:13 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ECC RAM useless with FreeBSD? Message-ID: <59598.946569253@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 30 Dec 1999 08:50:37 MST." <199912301550.IAA24298@mt.sri.com>
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In message <199912301550.IAA24298@mt.sri.com>, Nate Williams writes: >> >> I said military version, I didn't say mil-spec. >> > >> >It goes without saying that to be a military version, it must also be >> >mil-spec. >> >> Fortunately for Danish tax-payers our government doesn't work that way :-) > >Then why was it heavier than the standard version? Otherwise, they >could have used the 'stock' versions (which we ended up doing, but then >we added titanium outer cases custom made for SRI to make them more >rugged). Well, Danish Millitary bought the ruggedized military version from IBM and saved themselves all that trouble :-) >> >> Anyone remember the "Grid Tempest" ? >> > >> >I don't consider it a laptop, and it pre-dates the Thinkpads. We (SRI) >> >owned one of the original thinkpads made (it's sitting around here >> >somewhere), which was bought in preperation for a military contract. >> >> Why wouldn't the tempest be a laptop ? It most surely were on. > >I was being sarcastic. 'Laptop' implies something you can stick on your >lap. We're not talking about the same computer then. The GRiD i lugged around was a normal laptop, although a little heavier and larger than by todays standard. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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